OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery is 21. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Comparison of different scoring systems in predicting mortality and postoperative complications in acute care surgery patients at a Saudi Academic Centre	62
Recovery to normal vital functions and acid–base status after a severe trauma in Level I versus Level II Trauma Centres	50
The importance of predictive markers in incarcerated abdominal wall hernia	46
Importance of injury severity in the choice of treatment and its impact on prognosis in gunshot fractures	35
Which risk factors significantly influence the outcome of traumatic brain injured patients with alcohol use disorder?	34
Enhanced recovery after surgery protocols following emergency intra-abdominal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis	33
Hybrid warfare and counter-terrorism medicine	32
How to assess applicability and methodological quality of comparative studies of operative interventions in orthopedic trauma surgery	32
Publisher Correction: Beyond expectations: safinamide’s unprecedented neuroprotective impact on acute spinal cord injury	30
The mode of delivery after operative fixation of pelvic ring fractures–a retrospective observational study	29
Incidence, treatment techniques, and results of distal humeral coronal shear fractures in children and adolescents—a multicenter study of the German Section of Pediatric Traumatology (SKT)	28
Variable use of modern abdominal wall closure techniques at emergency laparotomy – an international, cross-sectional survey of surgical practice	26
Which fixation produces the best outcome for distal femoral fractures? Meta-analysis and systematic review of retrograde nailing versus distal femoral plating in 2432 patients and 33 studies	26
Impact of trauma on society	25
ER24/1 !: The greatest emergency of our time	24
Liberal intraoperative fluid management leads to increased complication rates in geriatric patients with hip fracture	23
Spontaneous idiopathic liver hemorrhage: a systematic review of a rare entity	23
Comorbidities, injury severity and complications predict mortality in thoracic trauma	22
Treatment modalities and patient reported outcomes in isolated and combined dorsal triquetrum chip fractures	22
Surgical treatment of non-unions in the ulna and radius: a one-year outcome study	22
Intended and suicidal trauma to the anterior neck in Finnish young adults	22
Age affects vascular morphology and predictiveness of anatomical landmarks for aortic zones in trauma patients: implications for resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta	21
Investigating the effect of phase change materials on the viability of damaged tissue in disarticulated limbs	21
Predictors of prolonged hospital stay of pelvic ring and acetabular fractures - a retrospective analysis in a 10-year period of a level 1 trauma center	21
Long-term functional outcomes of non-operative treatment in patients with humeral surgical neck fractures	21

Costal fracture assessment for relief and enhancement of quality of life—CARE study	21
Biomarkers help identify critically injured patients with only moderate risk of severe injuries in trauma team activation	21